Support

Thank you, Esteemed Visitor, for your readership and comments. I hope you find something of use on this site.

While it's a lot of fun to put things up here, time is always in too-short supply, and over the years, the site hosting costs add up to a chunk of change as well. If you'd like to ensure that the site keeps running and the fresh material stays flowing, I greatly appreciate your taking a glance below at simple ways you can support and contribute to the Diner:

Participate

Content is a site's level, Strength, Parry, Offensive Combat Value, and hit-point reserve, all wrapped into one. (¿What the heck am I saying here?) Your comments create great content for other readers to enjoy and discuss.

I welcome submissions of bigger content as well, such as articles, or even projects of interest to gamers; if this site's various features can support your project, great!

See user interaction for more.

Link to the Diner

The Diner has its fans, but could use more love in the linking game. If you've got a web site whose readers could be interested in what's here, and vice-versa, I'm happy to share links.

And if you don't have a site, please do mention content here in relevant forums, comments, etc. elsewhere on the Internet. I'm sure there are gamers who could find something of interest here if they knew about the site.

See the story on linking at links.

Click, shop, etc.

You may see the occasional link to products at online shops such as Amazon.com. If it's something you've been clamoring for, following the vendor link from this site results in a small but satisfying thwack that bypasses all DR and applies directly to the bandwidth bill's hit points.

Along those lines, you can send some support this way, and do something fun for yourself, and make the gaming world a better place, by creating your own gaming site with hosting by the feature-packed, low-cost DreamHost via these links.

And when you've done so, tell the world (and me) about your site! I especially love to hear from the fellow armchair designers creating original gaming systems and content. 

Grace the Tip Jar

There are the occasional saints who have written to say they want to donate something of pecuniary value, so allow me to accomodate! Milking the lame "diner" theme to the max means allowing for voluntary tipping. So if you want to leave a quid, please do – just click the graphic at right or this link.

For what it's worth, donations via these links are handled directly by the webhost, and can only be used against the hosting bill. I can't use them to join the D&D hordes, abandon this site for WoW, or do those things in Vegas that stay in Vegas. Every copper piece goes to hosting; that's good, right?

My deep thanks to anyone so generous as to donate. But if it comes down to a choice between tipping the Diner or answering your baby's hungry tummy... well, I hear chewing on leather helps with that. (Kidding, kidding...)

In any case, just please don't do that trick where you put the coins in a full glass of water, firmly place a card over the top of the cup, quickly place it all upside down on the Formica, and slide out the card, leaving a nasty water trap for the harried waiter/busboy... (Only do that when service is really bad, and don't tell them I taught you, okay?)

Hew garden gnomes from the living rock in my Rumanian granite mine

Or maybe not. If it weren't for you darned UN human rights observers, I'd have gotten away with it.   

Thank you!

Separate from the above, your reports of problems, and suggestions for improvement, are perhaps the biggest help of all. Fire away! Thanks.